To get a lot of the best stuff though you have to dive into Comicon and Wondercon, there’s where you’ll meet the dealers that have the good stuff,. last year I found a complete Road Warrior, and Explorers,

Ron Cobb with John Whitney Jr. and Kevin Rafferty, working together on The Last Star Fighter

One of Ron's Beautiful Bridge concepts for the Nostromos landing vehicle.

digital model of Ron's Gunship from Last Starfighter

Cantina aliens from Star War, the one on the bottom was always my favorite!

One of Cobb's political cartoons

what a dry, evil, and very funny sense of humor he has!!!

Ron on Back to the Future, Andy Probert was also a big part of the Delorian design team

what a smoke-n cool drawing!

Alien

leviathan

and total Recall, these are the Goldsmith and Cobb films

cachet art for the 25th of Goldsmith's STMP score

cachet art for Dark Star's 30th

cachet art for Starfighter's 20th

Today is Day three of Goldsmith and Cobb week and the two artists worked together on three films, I don’t know if they ever met but I am sure Ron has some of those magical moments watching his concepts come to life on the big screen with an awesome Jerry score laying a musical theme to Cobb’s imagery. The three movies are Alien, Leviathan, and Total Recall. Jerry’s score for Alien was landmark in it’s use of obscure sounds and bizzare instruments. Jerry had a way of creating frighting music with the higher end of the note scale… when you see a horror movie usually the bad guy or monster is addressed using low notes and heavy instrumentation. Goldsmith on the other hand went the other direction. if you have the complete Alien soundtrack tracks 4, the Terrain, 5, the Craft, 6,the Passage, 7, the Skeleton, 8, a new face, demonstrate that shrill and high range notes have an even more terrifying effect. On a side note Ridley Scott was using Jerry’s score to freud as a temp track while editing the movie, Some of the themes from freud actually were used in the final cut of Alien. In Jerry’s score for “Magic” a few notes drug across a Harmonica is the lead into evil. The Omen which was Jerry’s only Oscar winning score (which is in my eyes a grave injustice) he went the route of for everything good there is something evil. taking a church Choir as the main body of his theme, Jerry took the latin verses of Christian praise and changed them to Satanical lyrics. Mixed with heavy strings and an unsettling arrangement of obscure note patterns and tones, Mixed with Richard Donner’s incredible visuals this proved to be one of the most terrifying scores ever written for the screen. today in the gallery are some of Jerry’s Soundtrack covers, Illustrations from Ron Cobb’s, Alien, Back to the Future, and some aliens from Star Wars, followed by some cachets drawn to celebrate anniversaries from some of

these films. Enjoy!! Almost forgot!!! There is also a credit list of all of Jerry’s movie scores courtesy of Jerry Goldsmith on line. Go have a visit at Jason Needs awesome tribute page.